The US flag with all its stripes and a few of its stars was adopted by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. But today, overpriced textbooks and underpaid schoolteachers have sanitized most of our history and hidden the early controversies while fluffing half-truths, leaving us unclear about what that flag really stands for.

Fortunately, this is America and we’ve got movies to tell us what our teachers didn’t. Just read this quote from President Andrew Shepherd in American President:

America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You’ve got to want it bad, because it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say, “You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the ‘land of the free’? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the ‘land of the free.’”

So I thank Ernie Miller for reminding us of Texas v. Johnson and US v. Eichman, a series of cases that established the legal right to burn a flag. That, my friends, is something worth celebrating on Flag Day.

america, american president, burn, citizenship, civil liberties, civil liberty, first amendment, flag, flag burning, flag day, flags, free speech, liberty, patriot, patriotism, rights

Posted June 14, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: america, american president, burn, citizenship, civil liberties, civil liberty, first amendment, flag, flag burning, flag day, flags, free speech, liberty, patriot, patriotism, rights.

2 Comments

Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI

Leave a comment

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website

 

User contributed tags for this post:

worled sex (302) - 69 com (143) - worled sex com (119) - sex worled (106) - www.worled sex.com (87) - arab-69.tv (60) - 69 sex com (57) - Worled (50) - www arab 69 com (44) - 69 arab dreams com (44) - WWW WORLED SEX COM (41) - www 69 sex com (40) - www.arab-69.tv (33) - www.69.sex.com (32) - 69 Arab dreams (30) - www.69.com (30) - 69sex (28) - arab 69 com (27) - 69 com free (27) - arab 69 (26) - 69sex tv (25) - 69 arab dream (24) - WWW SEX 69 COM (23) - www.arab sex.com (23) - WWW 69 COM (22) - www.sex 69.com (21) - sex 69 com (20) - 69 (20) - arab 69 sex (20) - arab69 (19) - www.aRAB.COM (18) - www arab-69 tv (17) - worled sex.com (16) - 69 arab (16) - www.69 sex.com (15) - dreem sex (15) - www,69,com (14) - WWW.SEX WORLED.COM (14) - sex worled com (14) - worled sexy (13) - flag day speech (12) - sex arab.com (12) - 69 sex tv (12) - 69 ARAB TV (12) - www pink worled com (12) - www.69.tv (12) - about (11) - 69 sex dreams tv (11) - www.sex.69.com (11) - www.pink worled.com (11) - www.69 arab dream.tv (11) - 62376 (11) - www.worledsex.com (10) - www 69-arab dream tv (10) - arab69sex (10) - WWW ARAB COM (10) - Arab sex 69 (10) - arap 69 sex (10) - free 69 com (9) - sex 69 tv (9) - www.arab.69.tv.com (9) - www.arab.tv (9) - WWW SEX WORLED COM (9) - WWW ARAB SEX TV (9) - 69 arab com (8) - worled map (8) - 69arab (8) - pink worled (8) - WWW ARAB 69 (8) - www.arab69.tv (8) - www.sex arab.com (8) - www.69.tv.com (8) - www.arab.69.tv (8) - sex arab 69 (7) - arab.69.tv (7) - 69sex com (7) - 69 arap dreams com (7) - www.69sex (7) - 69 ARAB DREAM TV (7) - School 69 com (7) - Flag Day Stories (7) - related flashstreamworks com search php my search worle (7) - WWW 69 ARAB COM (7) - mss (7) - WWW ARAB SEX COM (7) - www.arab-69.tv.com (7) - www.arab-69-tv (7) - www.arab-69.com (7) - 69 arap (7) - arap 69 (7) - www 69 tv com (6) - sex69 (6) - arab 69.com (6) - WORLEDSEX (6) - 69 arab dreams com video (6) - flag day speeches (6) - arab 69 dream (6) - www/69.com (6) - worled movie (6) - http://www google com/ (6) - sexy porno girles (6) - www.69,com (6) - arab 69sex (6) - free worled sex (6) - sex.69.tv (6) - fashion the worled (6) - sex in the worled (6) - dream sexs gorls (6) - www top sex tv com (5) - sex arab 69 com (5) - arab69.tv (5) - www arab.69.com (5) - sex 69.com (5) - arab 69.tv (5) - arab-69-sex (5) - WWW 69 TV (5) - 69-arab.tv (5) - arap-69.tv (5) - 69SEX ALLS (5) - arab sex (5) - www.69/com (5) - 69 sex (5) - WWW WORLED SEX (5) - arab 69 tv (5) - www-69-com (5) - www.arab 69.com (5) - sex 1 com (5) - xxl worled com (4) - www 69-sex (4) - arab dreams (4) - www.worled sex .com (4) - www pink worled (4) - children sex tv in the worled (4) - www.69arab (4) - www 69 arab dreams com (4) - www.japan sex.com (4) - 69 sex stand (4) - www. 4 sex-69.tv (4) - www.worled.sex com (4) - SEX DREEM (4) - WORLED 2 (4) - www.arab 69.tv (4) - sex 69 (4) - www.dreem sex.com (4) - Dreem sex movies (4) - 69sex dreams tv (4) - www arab 69 sex com (4) - www.arab_69.tv (4) - www.69 arab.com (4) - arab-69.com (4) -